One way to convince people of the long-term benefits of insurance is to stretch the time horizon over which the event can occur.

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Black holes are believed to be so dense that not even light can escape their gravitational pull once it crosses over its theoretical border, known as the event horizon.

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Even so, not even light can escape the clutches of its event horizon its outermost gravitational point of no return where over the eons thousands of stars have likely met their demise.

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